Archive for July 12th, 2009
Parsley storage
Parsley before storage touch, rejecting the damaged root crops. Leaves cut off at the basis. Store parsley in stacks in height about 70 cm and width in 1 metre, and also in boxes and baskets. At storage parsley pour a considerable quantity of damp sand so that separate root crops did not adjoin. Sand should be such humidity that gathered in a fist, it was not scattered. On a box bottom fill sand a layer in 1,5-2 cm, stack a parsley layer, plentifully pour its sand, then put a new layer of parsley – and so fill all box. Repeatedly sand to use it is impossible.
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Carrot storage
Carrot can be stored in the trenches dug in the earth. Trenches dig out in the driest place of a garden, it is desirable located on a height. Depth of a trench should be about 80 cm, width – 100 cm, the length depends on quantity of carrot. Carrot spread in a trench, pouring dry sand. When to trench edge remains about 25 cm, on carrot put dry branches, rods and from above a trench fall asleep the earth a layer at 15-20 see From above, at hard frosts, it is possible to cover a trench in addition with straw, spruce branches and snow.
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